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A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.
Monica Swinn
- Princess de Rochefort
- (as Monica Swin)
Jesús Franco
- Dr. Roberts
- (as Jess Franck)
Gilda Arancio
- Victim in the Wall
- (uncredited)
Richard Bigotini
- Vice Cop
- (uncredited)
Roger Germanes
- Irina's First Victim
- (uncredited)
Pierre Quérut
- Inspector
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaJesus Franco originally made three different versions of the film.... a straight vampire film called La comtesse noire (The Black Countess), a horror-oriented erotic film entitled La Comtesse aux seins nus (The Bare Breasted Countess), and the hardcore pornography version Les avaleuses (The Swallowers). These 3 versions ran at 72 minutes, 82 minutes, and 96 minutes respectively.
- GoofsIn the opening shot, Lina Romay literally walks into the camera, bumping her face on the lens.
- Quotes
Countess Irina Karlstein: [voiceover] I earnestly wish an end would come to this bloody race I am forced to run.
- Alternate versionsIn the UK the film was originally passed for cinema in 1975 as "The Bare Breasted Countess" in a heavily edited version running less than an hour long. The 1994 UK Redemption video release was cut by over 6 minutes by the BBFC to heavily edit the lesbian/bondage scene and to remove shots of female masturbation and sexual closeups. Some cuts were restored in the 2002 Arrow DVD though 1 min 51 secs were removed from a scene of a woman being forced to strip and engage in lesbian sex.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Eurotika!: The Diabolical Mr. Franco (1999)
Featured review
A beautiful female vampire (Lina Romay) lures men to their doom.
Depending on which version you watch, you might get a more or less pornographic film with horror themes or a horror film with some sexual themes. I watched the Netflix version, which seems to be somewhere in the middle, or perhaps leaning towards porn (there were naked men and women within the first ten minutes, and a simulated sexual encounter). Not at all what I expected, and frankly it disappoints me that this version is not more horror.
Concerning the sexual scenes, Franco has said, "There was a need to show it, like you must show how Dracula sucks his blood, you need to show how this Countess sucks the semen." I am not sure if I buy that.
Depending on which version you watch, you might get a more or less pornographic film with horror themes or a horror film with some sexual themes. I watched the Netflix version, which seems to be somewhere in the middle, or perhaps leaning towards porn (there were naked men and women within the first ten minutes, and a simulated sexual encounter). Not at all what I expected, and frankly it disappoints me that this version is not more horror.
Concerning the sexual scenes, Franco has said, "There was a need to show it, like you must show how Dracula sucks his blood, you need to show how this Countess sucks the semen." I am not sure if I buy that.
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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